Someone wrote on my Fleischmann Matty....

[Stonepony]

....and I'm actually glad they did!!! Imagine nearly 100 years ago someone sitting at the kitchen table, shaking their head and scribbling on this card. Anyone else have anything with some added character that makes it special to you?
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[iggyman]

This is right up my alley! Here is what happens to a Butterfinger Ruth and an informed kid with a sense of history.

Lovely Day...

[HRBAKER]

Shown before (and certainly not unique), there are several early 20's Exhibits with meticulously penned stats on the back floating around the hobby.

[RCMcKenzie]

[yanksfan09]

Originally Posted by Stonepony

....and I'm actually glad they did!!! Imagine nearly 100 years ago someone sitting at the kitchen table, shaking their head and scribbling on this card. Anyone else have anything with some added character that makes it special to you?
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Fantastic Card!

[Leon]

from a kind board member...Goodie...

[bn2cardz]

They aren't prewar and I don't have scans, but when I was a teenager I had found out my dad had collected cards when he was a child. So the next time I was at my grandparent's house I asked my Grandma if I could try to find them. I finally found a rubber band stack of cards.

Within the stack were my dad and uncle's cards and they had left their marks. It included a checklist that they had filled out. One card has one of my Uncle's name on it. Another card showed traded teams. Another had a player's eyes colored in. Any of these cards would be worthless to most people, but to me they are my favorite cards from the stack.

[kdixon]

Glad someone took the time to identify who was in the photo. Zach and Mack both played in major league baseball.

[ZenPop]

Thanks for posting!!

[DixieBaseball]

Here's a few... I love it when collectors from decades ago write the team names on the back of the card. Buck Barker hit this Bradley OJ up pretty good as well as the collector of this Gabby. One of my favorites is when a player writes on the reverse. Lefty Williams signed the reverse of this Eddie Noyes RPPC, "my roommate." Lefty is also in the picture on the bench with legs crossed in white hat. Anyway... I love a picture with some pencil on it!

[wonkaticket]

Egan, notes.



Factory Notes.

[dlfallen]

A lot of Zeenuts have writing on the backs. Most of them are baseball related, but not all. Here is one that intrigues me:

[iggyman]

Buck!

Lovely Day...

[iggyman]

Do postcards sort of count?

Lovely Day...

[ephus]

I also have a Matty with a bit of writing. I have shown this here before, but it has been a while. On the back of my 1914 Cracker Jack Mathewson, the original owner wrote in pencil , "Best Fade Away Pitcher". I don't care for writing on cards just as much as most, but I do find this note very cool. As most know, Matty was well known for his Fade Away pitch which is now called a Screwball. He invented the pitch and I envision that the person who wrote it on the card must have seen him pitch to share his opinion on the card.

[WillowGrove]

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[edhans]

Jeff,
Who's on the front of that W516 Becker? Is it for sale?

[pete zouras]

[mybuddyinc]

Probably the only time Unglaub was considered a King:

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Never had any problem dating this exhibit:

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Wish I could return this card to rightful owner:

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Shown to many times before, but what the heck:

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[brianp-beme]

Buck was probably the most prolific back writer in collecting history. Who needs to see the fronts when the backs have all the info required...here are a bunch of Zeenuts:

Brian

[RCMcKenzie]

[paul]

Here's my Zeenut Paddy Driscoll with notes on back about Driscoll and even notes about prior owners of the card. Looks like Dick Dobbins acquired the card in 1973.

[Exhibitman]

On this signed PC back it instructs the fan to send a stamped envelope if he wanted a photo:



This one has a note from former MLBer and manager of Jim Jeffries' fight arena, Bill Aiton, forwarding this card to him on behalf of "Tom", aka Tom Sharkey, the HOF boxer who published the card.

[Exhibitman]

The writing on this card got me to researching Mishkin because I recognized that his full name is the same as that of a reference made by a character in a Woody Allen play, God ["I'm going to call my agent at the William Morris Agency. Sol Mishkin. He'll know what to do."]. The result of my research was this article The Saga Of Solly Mishkin that I gave to Old Cardboard:

http://www.oldcardboard.com/enews/20...31/enews31.htm

[Stonepony]

Gentlemen, I realize its a subject best avoided, however the evidence is irrefutable. Before sexting, before computer come ons and even before phone fantasy....your great grandparents were engaging in Postcard Propositioning!!!
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Sorry I had to let you know

[iggyman]

Once upon a time, I purchased this Kashin R316 Ruth dirt cheap thanks to a kid that I can only assume was trying to remember his/her address. The irony of it all was that the address wasn't that hard to remember.

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"Lovely Day!"

[oldjudge]

Beautiful card John. I never tire of seeing that Delahanty.

[wonkaticket]

Thanks Jay, you would be the person who might know. Any input as to the meaning of all his notes on the back? I know Leon may have or does have a bunch of his old papers...

[ksfarmboy]

Carl Mays in his own writing. Not sure if this was used in the book Baseball's Great Tragedy or not.

[BlueSky]

[Exhibitman]

My favorite "written on" card ever:



A Jack Johnson E80 is a nice card in and of itself. The stamping on the card back is something I've seen before--in a museum, when I went to research my book at the Met's Burdick Collection. The stylized "B" and the "Jeff B." indicate that this card was once the possession of Jefferson Burdick.

[ls7plus]

Certainly can't match that one, but I've got a 1947 Tip-Top Ralph Kiner that someone before me obviously treasured, as it's condition appears consistent with the person carrying it around with him in his wallet, and he wrote on the face of the card in fountain pen: "51 homeruns in 1947."

PS: He's not the only one who liked to carry cards around with him from time to time!

All the best, guys,

Larry